Chapter 4 Digging the Foot of the Wall

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Ning rode back to Lingzhou City. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

After tying the horse to the backyard and feeding it simply, Li Ning hurried to the Lingzhou Farmers' Market.

According to Li Ning's memory, the farmers' market was the property of the Xia family, one of the three major families in Lingzhou. The monthly rent of each shop in the market is about two hundred taels of silver, and there are about hundreds of shops in the farmers' market, and the Xia family closely relies on the farmers' market, and the monthly income is tens of thousands of taels of silver.

After a stick of incense, Li Ning came to the farmers' market.

The afternoon is the peak time of the farmers' market, so there are a lot of people at the farmers' market. Squeezing in along the crowd, Li Ning began to look for the materials he needed.

Li Ning was going to buy some sorghum, oats, and soybeans to grind into a batter, and then buy some semi-fat and lean pig's head meat and lettuce.

The semi-fat and lean pork head meat is soft and glutinous and fragrant, and it will not make people feel a trace of fat when rolled in the pancakes. Lettuce, on the other hand, is able to encapsulate the moisture and roll it in the pancake, which can make the pancake remarkable and solid, so that the pancake does not appear too thin.

It's not like Li-Ning is cutting corners and fooling customers. In fact, the pancakes are fried in a thin layer, and if you don't put some vegetables in them, it does look ugly.

"Joe Kee Grains"

Finally, after walking along the crowded crowd for half a day, Li Ning found a shop selling miscellaneous grains.

"What do you want, officer?" As soon as Li Ning walked into the shop, a handyman greeted him with a smile.

Li Ning glanced at the shop a few times and found that there were quite a lot of miscellaneous grains in it, and then asked, "How are sorghum, oats, and soybeans sold?" ”

"Sorghum costs ten cents a catty, oats cost eight cents a pound, and soybeans cost five cents a catty." The handyman replied with a smile.

"Delivery?" Li Ning then asked.

"Delivery is delivery, but if you deliver it, you will have to add a penny for every catty." The handyman nodded, paused and explained, "There are only two handymen in our shop, so you can take care of it a little longer." ”

Li Ning waved his hand and said indifferently: "Then weigh me ten catties of sorghum, oats, and soybeans each." I'll pick it up later, and you can send someone to bring it to me. ”

As he spoke, Li Ning took out the money and handed it over.

When the handyman heard Li Ning's words, his face suddenly burst into laughter, and after taking the money, he hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll prepare for you to go." ”

"I'll come and pick it up later!" dropped a sentence, and then Li Ning left the groceries store.

Later, Li Ning bought pig's head meat, lettuce and a large number of eggs in the market. Half an hour later, Li Ning turned back and came to the groceries store.

"Shopkeeper, are my grains ready?" Because it was inconvenient to go in with something in his hand, Li Ning stood outside the groceries store and shouted.

The handyman in the store saw that it was Li Ning, and hurriedly trotted out and said, "Okay, okay." ”

"Da Zhuang, quickly follow this guest officer to deliver the grains." As he spoke, the handyman shouted inside.

After a while, a sturdy young man came out carrying three bags of grains, the young man had a simple face, bulging muscles all over his body, and he was very strong.

The young man named Da Zhuang glanced at Li Ning, who was carrying things in his hand, walked up to Li Ning without saying a word, and stretched out his hand to pick up the pig's head meat in Li Ning's hand.

Li Ning hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, I can move it." ”

"Give it to me!" Da Zhuang stretched out his hand again and said insistently.

Li Ning saw that he couldn't stand strong, so he had to hand over ten catties of pig's head meat, and then said gratefully: "Thank you!" ”

Da Zhuang grinned and said honestly, "It's okay." ”

"Shopkeeper, then I'll go first." Li Ning said.

"Okay, you go slowly!"

Then, Li Ning took a young man named Da Zhuang and slowly walked out of the farmers' market.

Twenty minutes later, Li Ning returned to the restaurant out of breath. Gently kicking the door open, Li Ning walked in with Da Zhuang.

"Alright, let's put it in the backyard." Li Ning pointed to the grinding disc in the backyard and said.

With a "bang", Da Zhuang threw three bags of miscellaneous grains on a wooden board under the grinding plate, and then wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Tired, drink some water." As he spoke, Li Ning scooped out a bowl of water from the water tank on the side and handed it over.

"Knock knock." Da Zhuang was also thirsty, so he drank the water in the bowl in two sips.

Scooping another bowl of water and handing it over, Li Ning asked, "Da Zhuang, who are you from the shopkeeper of the multigrain shop?" ”

"Nobody, I'm a handyman in a grocer shop." Da Zhuang said honestly.

"How much does the shopkeeper of the multigrain shop give you a month?" Immediately after, Li Ning asked again.

Li Ning saw that the big strong man was honest and could endure hardships, so he couldn't help but think about digging the foot of the wall.

Da Zhuang thought for a moment and replied, "Thirty dollars." ”

Hearing Da Zhuang's answer, Li Ning was speechless for a moment, such a strong guy only gave thirty yuan a month.

"Or I'll give you a tael of silver a month, and you can work with me!" Li Ning seduced.

Da Zhuang simply shook his head and rejected Li Ning.

Li Ning asked suspiciously, "Why don't you come?" ”

"I promised to work for Shopkeeper Qiao for a year, and of course I will do what I promised others." Da Zhuang explained honestly.

Li Ning nodded, and thought highly of Da Zhuang's conduct, and then took out five cents and handed it over: "Since you don't want to come, then I won't force you." There's five pennies here, and you can take it and buy some meat to eat. ”

"No, no, no!" Da Zhuang hurriedly waved his hand and said, and the honest man's whole face turned red.

"Give, take!" Li Ning forcibly stuffed it.

Da Zhuang blocked Li Ning's hand, and then said: "Really, really don't, I, I'll go first." After saying that, the whole person ran out of the restaurant as if he was running away.

"Alas! What a real person, what a pity! Li Ning sighed helplessly, then turned around and swept the grinding plate, and began to prepare to grind the grains into powder.

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Liu family courtyard.

Liu Feng hurriedly ran in, panted and said, "Father, listening to the report of the people below, Li Ning went to the farmers' market today to buy a lot of miscellaneous grains and pig's head meat, and I don't know what to do." ”

"Buy cereals and pork head?" Father Liu leaned on the rattan chair and listened to Liu Feng's report, muttering with some doubts.

"What kind of medicine is sold in this Li Ning gourd, and what is he buying these things for?" Liu Feng asked suspiciously.

Father Liu glared and shouted angrily: "You didn't listen to the previous call to buy the restaurant directly by forceful means, and now you ask me, how do I know!" ”

Liu Feng immediately stopped talking and stood aside in a daze.

After a while, Father Liu waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go down." Continue to monitor Li Ning, and report to me immediately if there is any situation! ”

"Yes!" Liu Feng answered, turned around and left the courtyard.